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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
Dr. Robert L. Kelly
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Paperback. Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity. Num Pages: 375 pages, 58 b/w illus. 1 map 29 tables. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 788.
In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than ... Read more
In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
375
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
803g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107607613
SKU
V9781107607613
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About Dr. Robert L. Kelly
Robert L. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He has served as department head and as director of the Frison Institute. He is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology and a past secretary of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. He has authored more than one hundred articles, books and reviews, ... Read more
Reviews for The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
'Using Latin America as a case study, Kaplan clearly explains the interplay between economics and politics in the international arena … A thoroughly analytical work with the potential to transform thinking about globalization and austerity measures worldwide. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.' L. O. Imade, Choice